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Show dates: 12-16 October 2014, Dubai World Trade Centre

AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

Exhibition hours: 11am -6pm

Posiflex launches mobile POS Taiwan-based manufacturer of POS touch screen terminals and peripherals Posiflex has launched a new mobile POS, called MT4008W at GITEX Technology Week 2014. The company has been participating at the ICT event for the last seven years and considers the Middle East region has one of its biggest markets. Present globally, the company will also open its office in the UAE by early 2015. Gareth Omar Cornish, Vice President, Global Sales and Managing Director, Posiflex Middle East & North Africa, says,

Avaya unveils SmartConnect

Avaya has announced the launch of SmartConnect, which boasts solutions that include the VENA Fabric Connect network, one-click

mobile video, and a new Virtual Teller Machine end point, which are ready for government and financial services deployment. With live on-stand demonstrations, and in partnership with Avaya’s strategic customers from the public and private sectors, visitors to GITEX Technology Week can also experience some of Avaya’s ready-for-deployment smart productivity, collaboration and networking solutions. “We look forward to the launch of Avaya SmartConnect, and our team – the most experienced in the market – is keen to engage with visitors and showcase its capabilities,”

“We are having the world-wide launch of MT-4008W at this event. With this product, users have an option of 1D and 2D scanner. It is one of the first tablets designed specifically for POS.” “We have a presence in almost all countries in the Gulf and we focus largely in the hospitality and retail verticals. The UAE is a business hub for Middle East and North Africa. By having an office, it will enable us to expand our 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Mohammed Areff, Managing Director, GCC, Avaya, says. “Everything we have on the Avaya stand this year is live technology, with real time demonstrations showing how open, smart collaboration is possible for businesses of all sizes and governments across the Middle East and around the world.” Visitors and exhibitors at GITEX this year will directly experience SmartConnect as the fabric-defined Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC) network connects thousands of visitors and exhibitors across the 1 million sq. ft. facility, and so this year every business at the region’s largest technology exhibition will ‘run on Avaya’.

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eHDF launches remote monitoring and management services

Vision Solutions demos DR solutions

A10 flaunts DDoS and ADC products at Gitex

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Posiflex... business further, not just within the Gulf but also in North Africa,” he adds. The company has partnered with Pixel Digital in the UAE for its distribution of its products in the country. And is currently looking at signing up partners for other parts of the region. “We are hoping to meet and finalise some partners for the region besides UAE at GITEX. We are looking for partners who will not have conflict of interest as far as verticals are considered.” The 30-year-old company expects to close the financial year with 30 percent growth year-on year across the Middle East region.

HID Global showcases security identity

HID Global has lined up a portfolio of solutions addressing the customer’s needs for physical access control and identity assurance at GITEX Technology Week. It is displaying smart applications that address the enterprise’s, financial institution’s

and government’s security requirements. On the smart devices front, the company is also demonstrating FARGO printers, physical access control readers and cards and logical access control range. HID Global is also highlighting emerging technologies that leverage Bluetooth Smart to simplify mobile access. “HID Global is a trusted provider of secure identity solutions and we are delighted to be participating for the fourth consecutive year at GITEX, the biggest IT tradeshow in the MEA region. HID Global strongly believes in collaborating with the channel partners to address end user requirements effectively,”

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says Nat Pisupati, Regional Sales Director, Identity and Access Management, HID Global MEA. It is also demonstrating latest technology solutions designed for enterprise, healthcare, education and financial services (banking) verticals. Pisupati says, “We are available to meet channel partners, end users, OEMs, systems integrators, security and IT managers to understand what key secure identity challenges need to be addressed in the their markets and how our solutions can assist them.” HID Global is located at Stand B2-4, Shaikh Saeed Hall 2 at the Dubai World Trade Centre from October 12 – 16.

eHDF launches remote monitoring and management services eHosting DataFort (eHDF) has announced the launch of Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) services, an approach to remotely manage and monitor a company’s IT assets, at Gitex Technology Week. Managing and monitoring IT infrastructure in-house can be expensive, stressful and timeconsuming. Organisations are finding it increasingly challenging to hire, train and retain IT personnel with specific skill sets across various domains. Therefore, SMEs and larger corporations are opting for a more reliable alternative – partnering with an IT services provider to remotely monitor and manage their IT systems.

Based on customer demand for such services, eHDF has launched a model of onsite and offsite monitoring and management of IT infrastructure, either partially or fully. eHosting DataFort achieves this by installing a probe server at the customer’s premises that feeds updates from onsite devices to the master servers at eHDF’s data centers in Dubai. These updates are then analysed in real time by eHDF’s 24 x 7 services experts who are trained to handle and remotely resolve critical issues. Technical engineers are also available for issues requiring immediate onsite assistance.

Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting DataFort, said: “For businesses to thrive in an ever-changing and dynamic environment, it is important that their IT infrastructure is available at all times and is regularly monitored, managed and updated to avoid sudden breakdowns. RMM is a proactive service developed after a detailed analysis of IT best practices to enable infrastructure optimisation as critical issues are identified, reported and resolved in real time. In leveraging this solution, organisations can gain peace of mind and access to skilled resources that ensure their IT systems are always up and running.”

Gemalto demos Smart City solutions

Gemalto wants to set security free, and Hisham Surakhi, Senior Vice President of Government Programs, Middle East, says that the French

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company is set to do just that. Gemalto has been participating at Gitex since 2000 when the company established itself in the Middle East. “We saw that Gitex was a very important event for us to participate in,” says Surakhi. “It is the main technology show in the region and so we need to take part every year.” For Surakhi, Gitex is more than just a place to show off products. He sees Gitex as a place where people can come together to share new ideas, to collaborate and to bring new thoughts to the industry. “It is a place where people in the industry can meet, work together, and discuss recent

successes,” he says. Gitex has grown a great deal in the past 14 years that Gemalto has been involved. “When we first came, Gitex was the place to come show new products,” recalls Surakhi, “Now we are bringing solutions, not just products.” The future, says Surakhi, is going to centre around smart solutions for a Smart City. “We are proposing solutions for smart payments, smart travel and smart communication,” says Surakhi. Gemalto will be involved in the evolution toward Smart Cities, and can see that Gitex is evolving as well. “The growth of Gitex is an

indicator of the health of the IT industry in the region. The show has grown beyond Dubai, hitting Saudi Arabia as well. One can see that it is an important event.” As the region becomes more robust in terms of IT, Surakhi sees a future where M2M communications are heavily leveraged. “We are in an age where your washing machine can talk to your smart phone,” says Surakhi, “Machine to machine communication is becoming very important.” As to their future participation in Gitex, Surakhi is certain they will remain. “Gitex is too important to miss,” he says, “of course we will be here next year.”

Vision Solutions demos DR strategies “The Middle East Market is a specific area of focus for us and our goal is to bring regional awareness

“The Middle East Market is a specific area of focus for us and our goal is to bring regional awareness to our innovative, fieldtested and easy to use solutions.” Ahmad M. Khattab, Vice President, Sales, Growth Markets, Vision Solutions Vision Solutions, a provider of replication, high availability, disaster recovery and workload migration software and services, is showcasing its range of solutions at GITEX Technology week this October.

According to the company, GITEX provides the perfect opportunity to showcase its Double-Take, iTERA and MIMIX brands to not only large but also small to medium sized businesses in the region.

to our innovative, field-tested and easy to use solutions,” says Ahmad M. Khattab, Vice President, Sales, Growth Markets, Vision Solutions. “Knowing that GITEX attendees are often very technically astute

individuals, we will have solution architects and subject matter experts present so that we can immediately discuss and address current projects, requirements and sketch out real-world solutions.” Vision Solutions’ Double-Take, iTERA and MIMIX ‘make it easy’ for organisations to adopt cloudbased disaster recovery strategies, perform near-zero downtime migrations, share data in real-time across multiple platforms and move, protect and restore data, applications and operating systems on any combination of physical, virtual or cloud servers. The company will be having daily presentations, individual consultations and live demonstrations at stand 702 in Hall 7 at Gitex 2014.

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A10 flaunts DDoS and ADC products at Gitex Application networking firm A10 Networks is demonstrating its latest offerings in Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) Threat Protection Systems and Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) at GITEX Technology Week, 12-16 October, 2014. The company is using its A10 Thunder TPS product line of threat protection systems to demonstrate DDoS attack protection and data centre server and network downtime prevention. Also on display is the A10 Thunder ADC line of application delivery controllers. “Today, service providers such

as cloud providers, web hosting services, ISPs as well as large enterprises require an environment that is highly available and secure, as the Internet is the main way to channel an organisation’s services to its customers,” Glen Ogden, Regional Sales Director, Middle East, A10 Networks, says. “Over the last few years, DDoS attacks have grown dramatically in frequency, size and complexity. “While Middle East organisations have existing security strategies in place that mitigate a range of security threats, they are not sufficient enough to address new breeds of DDoS

attacks that leverage large distributed ‘botnet’ networks of compromised ‘zombie’ machines to simultaneously launch attacks using compliant protocols that are very difficult to detect and even harder to mitigate. It is clear that additional solutions are needed to complement existing security infrastructure in a layered defense model.” A10 Thunder TPS is built upon the company’s Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) platform, with A10’s Symmetric Scalable Multi-Core Processing (SSMP) software architecture that delivers a shared memory

Systran launches new version of Enterprise Server Systran has launched its Enterprise Server version 8 at the GITEX Technology Week. The solution aims to help global companies and public agencies quickly create and/or understand multilingual contents in a fully secure and cost-efficient way. As businesses become international, they face a need to accommodate employees, clients or partners spread all around the

world working in many different languages. While these global structures offer many benefits they also present numerous risks, such as confidential breaches, lack of compliance and critically, cyber-security vulnerabilities. Businesses are also facing the challenges of dealing with massive amounts of data that need to be processed in multiple languages for different

purposes such as competitive and marketing intelligence, technology watches, customer and user experience insights and electronic discovery. That is where Systran intends to positions its newest offering. Systran Enterprise Server 8 provides fully secure, real time translation services that seamlessly integrate into corporate intranet, collaborative

architecture. A10 Networks can be found in Hall 1 of the exhibition at stand number C1/16.

environments (e.g. instant messaging) or any market intelligent systems and data mining software through a centralised, on-premise translation server. Key features of the server include the possibility of secure real-time translations accommodating 100 languages, customised translations to specific domains that cash on Systran training server, Systran Toolbar add-ons for Microsoft Office products, and open APIs (translation, dictionary lookup, language identification).

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Infoblox exhibits DNS Security and cloud solutions insights with the community. At the same time, we are eager to gain a greater understanding of how Infoblox can help current and future customers in the Middle East based on a customised approach to the region’s specific needs,” he adds According to the company, Domain Name System (DNS) security is an area that regional

Infoblox, the automated network control company, is showcasing its latest solutions in DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI), secure DNS and network automation technologies at GITEX Technology Week, 12-16 October, 2014. Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East, Infoblox says, “GITEX offers a great platform for our company to expose our brand and showcase our products and capabilities to decision makers from various segments of the market that attend the event.” “As a market leader in enterprise-grade DDI as declared by IDC in a recent report, and with over 7,500 customers world wide, we are always looking to share best practices and rich technology

“Security of DNS infrastructure should be a top priority for organisations in the Middle East, but unfortunately statistics show that DNS servers and zone data are often neglected, which leave enterprises vulnerable to attacks. These attacks go well beyond DNS DDoS. There are multitudes of different attack vectors, which most DNS servers cannot detect

“GITEX offers a great platform for our company to expose our brand and showcase our products and capabilities to decision makers from various segments of the market that attend the event.” Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East, Infoblox

organisations will start paying greater attention to as they begin to understand the damaging consequences of inadequate security measures. DNS is a foundational Internet technology used in every nontrivial IP-based transaction. If it’s not working properly, Internet transactions can grind to a halt leading to disastrous results including lost revenue due to downtime, diminished customer satisfaction and lost productivity.

or protect against. The Advanced DNS Protection solution from Infoblox offers defence against the widest variety of attack types—not just volumetric attacks—to ensure secure, resilient, and trustworthy DNS services,” says Sleiman. Another focus for Infoblox at GITEX is on the company’s cloud solution, as private clouds are rapidly gaining traction in the region. Infoblox is exhibiting at GITEX from stand number D1-27 at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).

Microsoft expands Dynamics CRM Online availability Microsoft has today announced at GITEX Technology Week that it is expanding the availability of its Dynamics CRM Online to include availability in UAE. The cloud-based business application will be available in 18 additional markets in the coming months, providing businesses with sales and customer care capabilities which are integrated with productivity applications such as Office 365, Yammer, Lync, Skype, SharePoint and Power BI. The expanded availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to markets in Europe, Asia Pacific and South America began in June with the availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online in Turkey. By the end of the calendar year, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be available in 60 markets around the world. “In addition to enjoying the benefits of these new capabilities across sales and service, customers can be comfortable doing business with Microsoft when it comes to their data,” said Karim Talhouk, Microsoft Business Solutions Lead, Microsoft Gulf. “We focused our development efforts on understanding what businesses need to better engage with their customers and to have the agility and mobility to meet their needs anywhere, on any device.”

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